Climate Food and Agriculture
All Stories
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![dotted line cutout of a beef cow]()
![dotted line cutout of a beef cow]()
What would happen if everyone stopped eating meat tomorrow?
Answering that question shows just how tricky it would be to drop meat altogether.
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![Illustrated portrait of a white man in his 70s (Peter Martin) with an orange map of Maui and black palm trees in the background]()
![Illustrated portrait of a white man in his 70s (Peter Martin) with an orange map of Maui and black palm trees in the background]()
The libertarian developer looming over West Maui’s water conflict
Peter Martin spent decades guzzling water around Lāhainā. Then came the fire.
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![Illustration of cookbooks leaning against a striped utensil holder]()
![Illustration of cookbooks leaning against a striped utensil holder]()
Will climate cookbooks change how we eat?
Sustainable diets have been around for ages, but an emerging cookbook genre signals a new appetite for change.
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A celebrated startup promised Kentuckians green jobs. It gave them a ‘grueling hell on earth.’
The inside story of how AppHarvest's indoor farming scheme imploded — and took its blue-collar workforce down with it.
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![digital illustration of a King / Coho salmon in front of a tattered fishing net]()
![digital illustration of a King / Coho salmon in front of a tattered fishing net]()
Salmon are vanishing from the Yukon River — and so is a way of life
As waters warm, Alaska Native families confront a world without the fish that fed them for generations.
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![A brown and white dairy cow with a large tag reading 237 attached to its right ear awaits milking at a dairy farm.]()
![A brown and white dairy cow with a large tag reading 237 attached to its right ear awaits milking at a dairy farm.]()
Why can’t we just quit cows?
Eating less beef, cheese, and ice cream would slash emissions. If only it were that easy.
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![A farmworker wears protective layers while harvesting produce in the summer heat]()
![A farmworker wears protective layers while harvesting produce in the summer heat]()
How Florida farmworkers are protecting themselves from extreme heat
Protecting the people who pick your food is as easy as giving them shade and water.
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![Volunteers help out at a community fridge run by the Love Fridge, a mutual aid group in Chicago]()
![Volunteers help out at a community fridge run by the Love Fridge, a mutual aid group in Chicago]()
Community fridges don’t just fight hunger. They’re also a climate solution.
In cities across the U.S., hundreds of refrigerators stocked with free food are reducing waste — and methane emissions.
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![Two human hands touch a cluster of bur oak leaves.]()
![Two human hands touch a cluster of bur oak leaves.]()
To understand the future of forests in the warming world, look to the bur oak
That's what scientists are doing in a multistate investigation into climate change migration.
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![A researcher measures water levels in an irrigation well near Marienthal, Kansas. Water levels in the state's Ogallala Aquifer have been declining for decades.]()
![A researcher measures water levels in an irrigation well near Marienthal, Kansas. Water levels in the state's Ogallala Aquifer have been declining for decades.]()
Biden’s $8 billion quest to solve America’s groundwater crisis
With little fanfare, the administration is using infrastructure funding to revive dormant plans for pipelines and reservoirs in rural areas across the U.S. West.
